just more minutia of my life

If I am to keep on my self imposed schedule of posting every other day, then today, Wednesday, is the day but I don't have anything interesting to say that I haven't already posted about ad infinitum ad nauseam assuming of course that anything I have to say is interesting.

I haven't worked on the ditch since last Sunday. Monday was grocery shopping and yoga and, because yoga is at 5:15 in El Campo, after lunch is too late to do it since I have to get the dog walk in before we leave at 4:40 (during the summer the dog walk happens after yoga). Tuesday early morning it rained and then I had the appointment to get my new crowns. On the one hand, my front teeth haven't looked this good since I was sixteen. On the other hand the color is grayer than the teeth on either side but this was the second go round on color and as the dentist said it was probably as close as it was going to get without going into the lab for a custom color match. Which, no, not doing that. So I'll just get used to it. It's not like I can see them unless I peer at them in the mirror. And again, too late after lunch to start something like trimming the ditch.

And today, finally got my bone density scan. And again, it's a yoga day so I won't be starting after lunch even if it wasn't a wet drizzly day.

Actually, the main reason after lunch is too late to start any major undertaking outside on Mondays and Wednesdays is because lunch runs late around here. As does breakfast and dinner. Breakfast at 10, lunch at 2 (so we can watch General Hospital, yeah, I know, but we watch it anyway and it's not over til three), and dinner at 8. Sunday is the exception, only two meals on Sunday, brunch at 11 and dinner at 7.

I finally dug out the pink crinum lily bulbs and they are dead dead. While the outside of the bulbs are firm, there are no roots and they're mushy all the way through the center. Bummer. So one definite entry in the failed to survive column.

I do have some lobelia and pale purple petunias to get in pots or the ground 

though I did get my one tomato plant in a pot, already too late I'm sure, should have put it in a month ago, and a basil plant in the ground since I didn't get any volunteers from last year's plants. I repotted a desert rose I had recently already repotted because a datura sprung up in the pot, not really sure where that came from since I didn't get any volunteers last year, and I wanted to put it in it's own pot. Which I did and those four little things were all I managed to get done outside today.

Apparently nothing gets done after yoga either as it's now the next day. Back when I was big pot hunting I mentioned it at yoga and Abby said there was a big empty pot at the bowling alley I could have so the next class I jokingly asked her if she brought me the pot. That was a couple of weeks ago. When we drove up last night she motioned for me to come park next to her and in the back of her SUV was this gigantic clay pot heavy enough in it own right. We managed, just barely to get it in the back seat of my car. 

No way I can use it, which I did not mention, unless I plant something in it that is cold hardy because I'll never be able to move it once it's full of dirt and plant. But that was really sweet of her to bring it to me. So you can see how much bigger it is than the 'big' pots I bought. 

Tuesday night the pecan trees budded out. According to the conventional wisdom, that means no more dips into freezing.

The wisteria, swarming with bumble and other large bees when I took this, just because...

And two little planters of petunias I put in a couple of weeks ago.